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VOIP: B3G Telecom Chooses Highdeal Transactive for Rating and Billing Services

Posted on: Tuesday, 19 April 2005, 09:00 CDT

Highdeal, the leader in rating for mobile, multimedia and IP services announced today its latest Highdeal Transactive rollout with leading European Broadband Telephony operator, B3G Telecom. The IP Telephony specialist serves Tier One operators with its wholesale offering as well as enterprises through a one tier distribution model.

In response to the market's demand for robust enterprise services, B3G Telecom is rolling out a turnkey IP telephony solution, which comes complete with an IP Centrex solution integrating all the functionality of the traditional PABX with convergent IT and telephony functionality. It is also introducing a made-to-measure convergent voice and data service for multi-site enterprises (e.g. high speed Internet, IP-VPN, remote workers and mobile).

B3G Telecom required a flexible pricing, rating and billing solution capable of converging both voice and data services for fixed and mobile services. Highdeal was selected due to its unique patented rating engine, which enables customers to price and bill for customized service offerings from a single platform; allowing them to easily automate pricing policies and calculate usage and billing. Highdeal's low total cost of ownership, ease of management launching new and varied offers to targeted customer segments was a key selling point.

Patrice Giami, President and General Manager for B3G Telecom explained: "Highdeal Transactive was a natural choice. Highdeal's technology is designed to handle the complexities often associated with new services, in particular the convergence of fixed to mobile, voice and data services. Thanks to Highdeal Transactive we can now offer a comprehensive solution adapted to our customers' needs, providing them with billing capabilities for third parties."

Highdeal Transactive's easy to use, intuitive graphical interface for price plan creation enables new offers to be rapidly introduced on average in less than one week, thereby optimising return on investment and ultimately increasing operator ARPU. Highdeal's flexible, modular architecture and key functionality significantly decreases deployment times, whether integrating to existing legacy systems or delivering an end-to-end solution.

"We are delighted to work with B3G Telecom. The market is fast evolving its fixed and mobile services to an all IP environment and Highdeal is playing a key role in enabling operators to migrate their systems effectively and efficiently," said Eric Lavenir, Vice President Sales EMEA of Highdeal.''

About Highdeal

Highdeal is the leading provider of pricing, high performance rating and settlement solutions for broadband and mobile applications and services. Highdeal enables companies offering these services to create and implement successful pricing strategies in dynamic market environments. With over 100 implementations in more than 40 countries, companies around the world rely on Highdeal for their pricing and rating needs. Highdeal has offices in New York, Paris, London, Munich, Santiago & Sao Paulo. For more information, please visit www.highdeal.com.

About B3G Telecom

Created in France in 2001, B3G Telecom is the leading European Broadband Telephony operator.

Operating both in France and in Europe, B3G Telecom addresses key telecom operators and telecommunication & multimedia professionals with a "wholesale" service offer on the one hand and on the other hand the enterprise market with an exclusive indirect channel distribution strategy.

Operator Activity

Already established in France, Italy, Great Britain, Belgium, Denmark, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey, B3G Telecom is one of Europe's main players in the call endings wholesale market towards high margin destinations. Moreover, B3G Telecom offers white label Broadband Telephony Services to telecom operators, ISPs, cable companies, regional operators and, generally speaking to telecommunication and multimedia professionals. This "wholesale" service offer is modular and supports the main IP telephony protocols; it is design to integrate with B3G Telecom customers' production equipments, and to enable them to enrich their service portfolio. It is aimed both at consumer market actors and at operators targeting the enterprise market.

B3G Telecom has amongst its customers numerous key French and European TDM and VoIP operators such as: Colt, MCI, Cegetel, Tele2, Neuf Telecom, KPN, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, AT&T, Skype, StellaNet, NetUltra, Territoire Sans Fil, Axione, EDP and Pacwan.

Enterprise Activity

In order to answer all of the telecom needs of enterprises, B3G Telecom has designed a comprehensive service offer exclusively distributed via its partners' network. Leveraging its technological expertise of Broadband Telephony, B3G Telecom offers today the telecom solutions of tomorrow.

B-Initial is a Carrier Pre-selection offer which enables substantial savings very easily on the bulk of communications;

B-Direct is a broadband telephone subscription service which enables large savings not only on telecommunications, but also on subscription fees, without changes to the private telephone equipments of the company.

B-Centrex is a comprehensive IP Centrex offer, encompassing all the classical PABX functionalities as well as Telephony/IT convergence features; B-Centrex enables substantial savings on the bulk of the enterprise telephony budget (communications, subscription fee and switchboard).

B-Specific is a bespoke voice/data convergence service offer, answering multiple-sites enterprise complex voice/data telecom needs (broadband telephony, IP-VPNs, teleworkers, field employees, etc.).

B3G Telecom's distribution partners are retailers and brokers and are all enterprise telecommunications professionals: telecom integrators, private fitters, data integrators, "switchless" operators, VoIP specialists, etc.

Profitable since its first fiscal year, B3G Telecom has reached a turnover of almost 50 million Euros in 2004. B3G Telecom's team consist of around sixty employees, all with a long experience of the telecommunications market.

Source: Business Wire

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